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ArticleNursing open2022

COVID-19-The impact of variable and "low normal" pulse oximetry scores on Oximetry@Home services and clinical pathways: Confounding variables?

Nicholas Harland, Jane Greaves, Elizabeth Fuller

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Article in Nursing open, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

2 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Nicholas HarlandFaculty of Health Science and Wellbeing, Helen McArdle Nursing and Care Research Institute, University of Sunderland, Sunderland, UK.ORCID 0000-0003-3402-3457
Jane GreavesNorthumbria University, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK.
Elizabeth FullerSouth Tyneside NHS Foundation Trust, South Shields, UK.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

COVID-19 Oximetry@Home services have been commissioned nationally. This allows higher-risk patients with mild COVID-19 symptoms to remain at home, being supplied with a Pulse Oximeter to measure their oxygen saturation (SpO

Indexed as

COVID-19BradycardiaConfounding Factors, EpidemiologicCritical PathwaysHumansOximetryOxygenOxygenCOVID-19oximetry@homeoxygen saturationpulse oximeter

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PMID34161659
PMCPMC8441634

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